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Subject: Re: [kde-artists] branding button
From: "Riccardo Iaconelli" <riccardo () kde ! org>
Date: 2008-12-20 22:22:26
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On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:23 PM, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj@acm.org>wrote:
> Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
>>
>>
>> IAC, here is an improvement with the current style trademark and it is an
>> actual SVG.
>>
>> NOTE: If there is a specific font that should be used in place of
>> Bitstream Vera Sans Bold, please advise and I can change it.
>>
>> Should I commit this?
>>
>>
>> Hmm... this is really old style. Doesn't look any better than the old
>> one, just weirder (crystal & oxygen clashing)
>>
>> Since there is nothing Crystal about this, I can only guess that you
> mean that the colors should be changed which is fine with me.
Yeah, it's the colors... also, I don't really have a design in mind that we
should adopt but that really looks old school.
> and blurrier.
>>
>
> Perhaps the real font isn't a good idea.
>
Looks like not. Especially with inkscape's (unhinted) rendering
And embedding a png in an svg doesn't make the svg no longer an svg.
> There are several good points in embedding raster images into an
> svg: quality of the renderer, speed, full control over every pixel...
>
>
> But there is no point if it is *only* a PNG, you could just use a PNG and
> it would be even faster
>
Well, there is: plasma themes.
One can want a SVG there at a certain point (just because we do PNGs it
doesn't mean somebody wouldn't want a fully vectorial SVG in the future),
and anyways that's what plasma::theme gives us.
Bye,
-Riccardo
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On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:23 PM, James Richard Tyrer <span dir="ltr"><<a \
href="mailto:tyrerj@acm.org">tyrerj@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div \
class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid \
rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Riccardo \
Iaconelli wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid \
rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div \
class="Ih2E3d"><br> IAC, here is an improvement with the current style trademark and \
it is an actual SVG.<br> <br>
NOTE: If there is a specific font that should be used in place of Bitstream Vera Sans \
Bold, please advise and I can change it.<br> <br>
Should I commit this?<br>
<br>
<br>
Hmm... this is really old style. Doesn't look any better than the old<br>
one, just weirder (crystal & oxygen clashing)<br>
<br>
</div></blockquote>
Since there is nothing Crystal about this, I can only guess that you<br>
mean that the colors should be changed which is fine with \
me.</blockquote><div><br>Yeah, it's the colors... also, I don't really have a \
design in mind that we should adopt but that really looks old school.<br><br> \
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, \
204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> <blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt \
0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> and blurrier.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Perhaps the real font isn't a good idea.<div \
class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>Looks like not. Especially \
with inkscape's (unhinted) rendering<br><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; \
padding-left: 1ex;"> And embedding a png in an svg doesn't make the svg no longer \
an svg.<br> There are several good points in embedding raster images into \
an<br>
svg: quality of the renderer, speed, full control over every pixel...<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid \
rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> But there is no \
point if it is *only* a PNG, you could just use a PNG and it would be even \
faster<font color="#888888"><br> </font></blockquote></div><br>Well, there is: plasma \
themes.<br>One can want a SVG there at a certain point (just because we do PNGs it \
doesn't mean somebody wouldn't want a fully vectorial SVG in the future), and \
anyways that's what plasma::theme gives us.<br> <br>Bye,<br \
clear="all">-Riccardo<br>-- <br>GPG key:<br>3D0F6376<br>When encrypting, please \
encrypt also for this subkey:<br>9EBD7FE1<br>-----<br>Pace Peace Paix Paz Frieden Pax \
Pokój Friður Fred Béke 和平<br>Hasiti Lapé Hetep Malu Mир Wolakota Santiphap \
Irini Peoch שלום<br> Shanti Vrede Baris Rój Mír Taika Rongo Sulh Mir \
Py'guapy 평화<br>
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